Hello, dear Hashnode community,
In the last years, I have tried a lot of tools, from the hypest and fanciest (like trello or atom) to the simplest and bleakest (like vim and some files in some folders).
What I have found is that a lot of tools, by wanting to do everything, ends to do nothing. That I'm a lot better with simple tools, I find it more convenient, simple to use and understand.
Maybe it's because I'm human, maybe because I can't face complexity just as well as machines can. I don't know.
But what I know is I can't find a mail client which do the job. I have tried a lot thought. Thunderbird, Gmail, Geary, Nylas, Postbox, ...
What are your thoughts? Did you find tools that fit your needs? Or, do you dream, just like me, of a mail client which is just a simple tool?
Thanks for reading :)
Note: I'm a beginner when it comes to writing in english, so feel free to give me your feedback :)
the question of simplicity seems to be rather complex :D
I personally always go for bash if I want something simple tecmint.com/best-commandline-email-clients-for-li…
but they mainly don't have less features they have a different learning approach since you often cannot use a mouse and this forces the UI design to work in a different way.
Did you mean something like that?
edit:
oh and your english is fine ... i even would dare say you write way better english than I do :)
Jason Knight
The less code you use, the less there is to break
I've been on the hunt for a decent mail client ever since Opera told its faithful to kiss off when they moved to Blink. The standalone version no longer works with modern SSL since the chinese company that bought them out no longer maintains it, and I find Thunderbird... lacking.
IMHO the world could always use another fresh set of eyes on making a mail client -- and you used the magic word. Simple.
Too many of the terminal clients end up with false simplicity, they look simpler but mak the task harder. Too many GUI clients just keep tacking on features people don't want or need whilst failing to provide some basic things like in-built spam filtering.
The only reason I'm using Thunderbird right now is it actually works with all the different mail systems I log into... I'd LOVE to find something better but half of them won't even talk to my server.